"Journalists who make mistakes get sued for libel; historians who make mistakes get to publish a revised edition."
— Journalism

January 1, 1970

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Bill Moyers, "The Big Story", speech to the Texas State Historical Association, 7 March 1997, Moyers on Democracy (2008), p. 131.